Twenty-four people were injured after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook Tonghai County in the city of Yuxi, southwest China's Yunnan Province Monday morning, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

Dangerous flooding that is already occurring across portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts will worsen over the coming days as rounds of heavy rain inundate the northeastern United States.

AccuWeather users, located in the southeastern U.S., on mobile and desktop web reported seeing a hurricane warning at 12:37 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10, 2018. However, there are no hurricane advisories currently in effect for the southeastern U.S.

There were approximately 1,200 emergency treated burns associated with playground equipment between 2010 and 2015. There are a number of safety precautions to keep your children safe while on a playground in a heat wave.

Even as Atlantic hurricanes intensify more rapidly than compared with storms from 30 years ago, not all homes in hurricane-prone areas are being built to withstand these increasingly powerful forces of nature.

Peak hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin unfolds in mid-August and lasts through October. From Camille to Katrina to Harvey, August hurricanes have caused billions of dollars of damage across the eastern United States.

Forecaster Challenge, presented on AccuWeather.com, is an educational game developed and operated by CX®, a U.S. regulated exchange, that allows users to make predictions based on high temperature, rainfall, snowfall and hurricane landfall locations.

A zone of frequent downpours and thunderstorms is forecast in the coming days which will both raise the risk of flooding and bring drought relief to a large part of the south-central United States, including Texas.